Literary Origins Sawyer is, of course, the quintessential American boy in Mark Twain's ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.''
In the Comic He's not there. Because the League is a group of European heroes doing their duty for the British Empire, there was no room for an American ''white-picket-fence painter,'' graphic novelist Alan Moore explains.
On Screen The studio wanted a young character from an American novel as one of the crime fighters, and Tom was a natural, considering that he's the hero of Twain's sequel, ''Tom Sawyer: Detective.'' The movie takes it one step further, though: Tom has grown up to be an American Secret Service agent.
Posted Jul 02, 2003
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